I recently finished Ted Chiang’s sci-fi short story collection Stories of Your Life and Others, an engaging, smart, and varied set of stories that stretch […]
Beware of Scrabble Playing Argentines in Blimps
A short history lesson: poker began to be televised in the late 1990s. What was once a card game played in casinos and at family card […]
Looking to History for Guidance in a Time of Plague
It’s early days in 2021, but in March it will have been a year since we first went into lockdown due to COVID-19. And if […]
John le Carre and the CIA
John le Carre, the master of espionage fiction, died this past weekend. A former MI5 and MI6 spy for Britain, his novels showed the solitary, […]
New York, New York: A City in Six People
I’ve only ever seen New York City through a glowing screen. Movies, news broadcasts, TV shows, photographs of the Empire State Building, or just from […]
Classic Films: Rashomon
I know we normally talk about books on this blog, but the book I was going to write about this week is not widely available […]
Ulysses on Audio: I think I like it?
If you have decided to read this post, I’m going to you assume you either really like Ulysses and want to read me gush about […]
Technically Wrong: Systematic Bias in Everyday Tech
It’s been a little over two months since the death of George Floyd, and the demands for justice and systematic change has not abated. These […]
Mouthful of Birds: What did I just read?
It’s hard to describe how strange and wonderful Samanta Schweblin’s Mouthful of Birds is. I feel like I can’t do these stories justice, but I […]
